So you take a tip from a mner and end up with a 2.5 kilo heart sat in your kitchen

[Slubberdegullion]

"They are quite big" said the butcher when I ordered it, all full of optimisim after the cheap beef cuts thread.

Well she wasn't bloody wrong.

Just look at the huge offally bastard.

Tonight I am going to attempt to turn half of it into a ragu, but after that, well I'm open to suggestions.

Google post heart purchase says that even slow cooked it's not very nice. No wonder it only cost 4 quid.

Cook or feed to the dog?

[EndoplasmicReticulum]

Is the playmobil chap pulling on your heartstrings?

Looks brilliant. Not to eat, obviously.

Our very lovely technician gets us hearts a bagful at a time from the butcher. She also collected a bag of eyes once, and said the woman behind her in the queue gave her a very strange look.

Every time I do a dissection the kids go "ewwww" at the idea of eating offal. At which point I mention that if they eat burgers / sausages then offal is probably the best of what they are getting....

[BaronessBomburst]

I'm sorry, but I'm laughing so much at this thread! DH just came over to see what was going on.

Please, please keep updating us on the cooking, eating of or not etc

[Slubberdegullion]

Will update tomorrow

[Trills]

The diced picture looks bee-yoo-tee-ful.

[Honeydragon]

I have tears running down my face from trying to laugh without waking everyone up

This Mnet made me do it shit has to stop. I reckon its HQ in their lunch hour, egging each other on to make us eat weird shit and go and buy pointless crap.

[kickassangel]

slubber - I don't think that this will catch on with the same popularity as the victoria sponge cake did. Can you imagine a mn 'best cut offal' competition?

[MrsSchadenfreude]

Are you going to have the decapitated gingerbread men for pudding?

[Slubberdegullion]

Heart feedback 1.

I would defy any meat eater to enter my house now and not say "ooh something smells nice". Smells just like pot roast brisket. I am quite pleased. It's not a complete fist pumping triumph but certainly is very tasty.

The flavour is quite mild, certainly on the stewing steak side of things rather than liver, but not quite like either. What has not happened it that it hasn't disintegrated after overnight in the oven at 90. Must be because of the type of unique muscle, and lack of fat. It's not tough, or even chewy, but each of the bits has held its shape, say like stewing steak after cooking for an hour or so.

Will upload photo later but tbh it just looks like a giant beef casserole.

Am very pleased. Tonight is stir fry or stroganoff, depending on what's in the fridge.

[SexyDomesticatedDab]

They went into Campbells meatballs when I worked in the factory near Kings Lynn.

[Slubberdegullion]

Kickass, Offal set in a diorama of playmobil, what's not to like about that comp?

MrsS, ripping off those gingerbread mens' heads was fun. Most cathartic.

[Slubberdegullion]

I bet they go into all sorts SDD.

[SoupDragon]

[barf]

[SexyDomesticatedDab]

I'm sure its classified as meat not the mechanically recovered gloop stuff they use .

We used to cook pigs hearts years ago at home - and something called pigs fry and not sure what part of the pig that is! Perhaps I should ask my butcher one of these days.

[SoupDragon]

Its probably best not to ask TBH.

[SexyDomesticatedDab]

Think this thread is fab - slubber pictures are excellent.

Remember cooking some kidneys at our Uni house and one of the girls came back and couldn't stand the smell - opened all the windows and stuff.

I have no problems generally with offal - but its when factories create 'meat' - the pink slime stuff if you've seen the Jamie O / HFW type programmes.

[FourThousandHoles]

When a man's an empty kettle he should be on his mettle,
And yet I'm torn apart.
Just because I'm presumin' that I could be kind-a-human,
If I only had heart.
I'd be tender - I'd be gentle and awful sentimental
Regarding Love and Art.
I'd be friends with the sparrows ...
and the boys who shoots the arrows
If I only had a heart.
Picture me - a balcony. Above a voice sings low.
Wherefore art thou, Romeo? I hear a beat....
How sweet.
Just to register emotion, jealousy - devotion,
And really feel the part.
I could stay young and chipper
and I'd lock it with a zipper,
If I only had a heart.

[Funtimewincies]

Slubber - I think that lungs are known as 'lights' but I could be wrong.

Maybe they're the testicals .

[Trills]

Lights are lungs, yes. No idea why. I've only ever had lung in haggis and it was a weird texture.

[SexyDomesticatedDab]

Isn't the lungs and trachi windpipe known as the 'pluck'?

[Slubberdegullion]

Well credit where credit is due. Many thanks to PomBearAtTheGatesOfDoom for the ox heart tip , so far so good.

Love the poem FourThousandHoles

I would be very interested to hear what the mouth feel (tm Thready) of lungs is like. I imagine rather spongy but then cooking does weird things to texture. I must like the taste of them as I bloody love haggis.

[FourThousandHoles]

It's the tin man from the wizard of oz slubber

[ReshapeWhileDamp]

You know, I have a horrible, sneaking suspicion that 'pigs' fries' are their goolies. Could be wrong.

I only remembered to look at this today, Slubber. You may have convinced me to go to the butcher tomorrow and bag some offal. I might wimp out and get sheep hearts, though.

[SexyDomesticatedDab]

No - as I recall the pigs fry was sort of wavy - so more likely to be internal than a couple of round things on your plate.

[Slubberdegullion]

Reshape next time I do heart I'm going to order ovine rather than bovine ones. Rl mate also gives stuffed sheep hearts the big thumbs up.

Had to google pigs fry and it sounds like a medley of organs, so heart, lungs, liver and melts. Went on to google melts and it's the spleen. No idea what your wavy bits were SDD, maybe the inside of some of these organs when cooked takes on a wavy appearance.

Now am wondering what spleen tastes like.

Did flash fried wafffffffer thin ox heart last night in a creamy mustard sauce. Tasted great but still different to steak and certainly not tough.